Dec 13, 2019
Görlitz innovation campus is taking shape
The Siemens Innovation Campus Görlitz is an element of the "Future Pact Siemens Görlitz", which was signed on 15 July this year by Siemens AG, the State of Saxony and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. The aim is to strengthen the Lausitz region in the long term and to give significant impetus to structural change there. Siemens, with support from the Free State of Saxony and the city of Görlitz, among others, has been able to gain long-term, good, innovative partners with the Technical University of Dresden, the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. The TU Dresden is establishing a branch campus at the Görlitz location with a focus on development and research in the field of hydrogen technology and its application in the mobility sector.
On December 2, in the presence of the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer, declarations of intent were signed for settlement and cooperation projects. The Technical University of Dresden was represented by the Vice-Rector for Research and all professors at the Institute for Automotive Technology Dresden (IAD) when signing the letter of intent to set up a branch campus with a focus on "Automated Hydrogen Mobility".
The consideration of the combined, hydrogen-powered and highly automated driving offers the potential of a mobility solution for logistics and public transport with maximum social added value - also with cost-benefit aspects, among other things through compensation of high vehicle investment costs, through the synergetic combination of the two topics automation and hydrogen-based drives with fuel cell technology due to the potential 24/7 operation - which, however, in turn leads to significantly higher requirements for the overall vehicle service life. In addition to theoretical considerations, the achievement of this goal requires a corresponding need for targeted, experimentally supported research, which is to be mapped on the innovation campus.
For this purpose, we work closely with local partners such as the city of Görlitz, Siemens AG, Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe, Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederlesien (ZVON), Energy Saxony eV, the plastics center in Oberlausitz, the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU Zittau and Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, who also signed the letter of intent.
With the hydrogen ecosystem of generation, storage and use as well as the model projects for automated mobility in rural areas resulting from the structural change, the Department of Transportation Sciences Friedrich List will find new ways to answer realistic questions of future mobility systems.
